Le mardi 27 novembre 2012 12:59:13 Laurent Rineau a écrit :
> Le mardi 27 novembre 2012 12:33:18 Torbjorn Granlund a écrit :
> > I tried to read your patch now, but I am afraid I cannot follow it.
> >
> > I need explanatiion if each change, e.g., change logs. Specific
> > questions:
> >
> > What is this "resource file" thing?
> > What is the RC/windres stuff?
> >
> > I believe people have reported that GMP worked under Mingw for both
> > x86-32 and x86-64. Now, major changes seem to be needed. Could you
> > explain this? Has Mingw changed?
>> My fault. My patch fixes two things at the same time.
>> 1/ The names of .def files was not correct, because an old soversion what
> hardcoded in the configure.in file. That is a bug. I doubt anybody can
> report that the mingw compilation works with --shared since the soversion
> of GMP has changed.
That is wrong, actually. The scenario is more complex: the default way to
build gmp with mingw32, with --enable-shared, does not use .def files, and
thus the build succeeds. I will explain the issue more in details after the
week-end.